Note 27 — A-slender-one-who-was-given-away
Reading edition
When she went back to it with her husband she kicked it. “Go seaward, father’s canoe,” she said to it. Now a whale canoe floated upon the water. The lines cut on the edges27 were pictures of geese, which almost moved their wings. And they carried their stuff down to it. The canoe was all filled with good food, with cranberries, berries in cakes, soapberries, and the fat of all kinds of animals, grizzly-bear fat, mountain-goat fat, deer fat, ground-hog fat, beaver fat—the fat parts of all mainland animals; and he got into the canoe and pressed it down with his feet toward the bow. When the canoe was nearly full those who were loading it went up to the house and laid pieces of whale meat, with most of the grease taken out, in a basket. When it was full they took it down. And they laid it on the top.